Green Building Initiatives
The Green Building Initiative (GBI) is a not for profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of building practices that result in energy-efficient, healthier and environmentally sustainable buildings by promoting credible and practical green building approaches for residential and commercial construction.
GREEN SCHOOLS TOOL KIT From Southface GREEN BUILDING TOOL KIT answering questions such as Why green? What does it cost? How to plan and manage a Green Project. What is LEED? case studies and articles.
Great Interviews with people who rappel down buildings, design bridges, protect water supplies, designs stadiums and more!
www.Treehugger.com
calling themselves a "one-stop shop for green news," Tree Hugger has all kinds of good and sometimes fun articles about going green!
take a GREEN QUIZ How good is your green vocabulary?
The Power of Green
an article from Fast Company about all the different ways that the Green REvolution is impacting areas as diverse as music, construction, fashion, investing,
The Construction Carbon Calculator helps developers, builders, architects and land planners approximate the net embodied carbon of a project's structures and site. ESTIMATE the embodied CO2 of a whole construction project
Green Building
Info about Willets Point in Queens, NYhave a question about Green Building?
go to www.HowStuffWorks.com
Elements of a Green Building
Green Roof Research
Green Building and Technology PathfinderTake a look at Renzo Piano's spectacularly green California Academy of Sciences
Smart Growth
Brownfields
What are GREEN JOBS?Green Building Statistics from the US Green Business Council (USGBC)
here are all kinds of statistics and links that give clues as to what kinds of jobs there
Local NYC organization http://www.urbangreencouncil.org/
http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/
Green Operator http://www.1000supers.com/green-operator.php
http://www.1000supers.com/
Green Building Advisor
Teens build a Green House
Watch Video from NOVA: hour long program broken in to 10 minute segments THE BIG ENERGY GAMBLE
Go to video explaining why to BUILD GREEN
Construction Categories that will give you ideas for what sort of career opportunities there are in Green Building http://www.advancedbuildings.org/
http://brightestgreen.wordpress.com/
Career Pathways in Architecture and Construction
Jobs in the architecture and construction career cluster involve designing, planning, managing, building and maintaining the built environment
Green Building Initiatives
The Green Building Initiative (GBI) is a not for profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of building practices that result in energy-efficient, healthier and environmentally sustainable buildings by promoting credible and practical green building approaches for residential and commercial construction.
GREEN JOBS for AMERICA, a national campaign made up of labor unions, environmental groups and others, to educate the public about the need for investments in good, green jobs.
http://www.kintera.org/htmlcontent.asp?cid=81548
Go to the web site and find the report on Green job opportunities
http://www.bluegreenalliance.org/site/c.enKIITNpEiG/b.3227091/k.E4AB/Blue_Green_Alliance.htm
GREEN SCHOOLS TOOL KIT From Southface
GREEN BUILDING TOOL KIT answering questions such as Why green? What does it cost? How to plan and manage a Green Project. What is LEED? case studies and articles.
Great Interviews with people who rappel down buildings, design bridges, protect water supplies, designs stadiums and more!
www.HowStuffWorks.com for specific information about building green
Green Roofs - advantages, costs, how to
www.Treehugger.com
calling themselves a "one-stop shop for green news," Tree Hugger has all kinds of good and sometimes fun articles about going green!
take a GREEN QUIZ How good is your green vocabulary?
Design for the Other 90%
Articles
Building a New Industrial Revolution, an article about visionary environmental architect and designer William McDonoughmore on William McDonough
Cruikshank, Douglas. "Van Jones: Creating a Green-Collar Workforce." Edutopia. April 2008.
http://www.edutopia.org/van-jones
The Power of Green
an article from Fast Company about all the different ways that the Green REvolution is impacting areas as diverse as music, construction, fashion, investing,
Tischler, Linda. "The Green HOusing Boom." Fast Company. 11 Sept, 2008. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/127/the-eco-home-of-tomorrow.html
Kamenetz, Anya. "Top Ten Green Jobs for the Next Decade." Fast Company. 26 Jan. 2009. <http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2009/01/best-green-jobs.html
Finfrock, Jessie "Wind Employs more Americans than Coal." Mother Jones, Blue Marble Blog. 30 January, 2009
http://www.motherjones.com/blue_marble_blog/
AIA Top Green Projects
http://www.aiatopten.org/hpb/index.cfm
How to measure your CARBON FOOTPRINT
The Construction Carbon Calculator helps developers, builders, architects and land planners approximate the net embodied carbon of a project's structures and site. ESTIMATE the embodied CO2 of a whole construction project